Ruhlman: Lemon Squares: Boxed Mixes?! Michael (and his mom and son) show how buying a boxed lemon square mix is like throwing your money away. This is kind of funny because my daughter just had a sleepover and one of the activities she did with the girls was cooking stuff. We’d picked up […]

Really Bad Cleveland Accent: Horizontal Books. After stopping at the bank for the kids’ monthly “learn how to save money” trip, Ned noticed that Horizontal was open. He made me promise that we would stop in there soon. I’m interested as well, but I’m not much of a book buyer. I don’t re-read […]

Cleveland Foodie: A Perfect Saturday Morning. Michelle heads to West 4th for breakfast at the new Erie Island Coffee. And she also stops by the still-not-completed Greenhouse Tavern. Both sound great. Lately it seems like all new restaurants are opening on W. 4th. I remember just a couple of […]

Rob Pitingolo: Olympics Fallout. In a post ostensibly about Chicago, Rob links to several articles that show how hard and how fast bad things can start piling up after the Olympics leave town. It’s pretty clear that most places that host simply don’t need a lot of the infrastructure that had been built […]

WEWS: Cleveland Schools’ Shakeup? Looks like some underperforming schools are going to get new principals. The current principals are being “reassigned” to assistant principal…

Cash for Clunkers. As the owner of two clunkers this bill interests me greatly. We’ve always said that we will wait for our cars to literally die before buying new ones, but a $5,000 incentive to buy a car would almost certainly push us into a purchase sooner. The catch is that the […]

Rob Pitingolo: What Causes Long Commutes? Rob charts commute times vs. transit usage rates and sees some correlation. What isn’t clear, however, is any sort of causation. It seems like nobody really knows if public transportation actually reduces congestion or can only succeed if there’s a lot of congestion.

WEWS: The Big Egg’s Breakfast This Week: One Cent. (With the purchase of a drink…) The Big Egg opened back up this month and this is a promotion they’re running every day from 6 am – 8 am. Hulu: Cosmos. This is a great TV series from the 80’s that goes […]

Crain’s: Weston to pursue development of key block in downtown Cleveland. The Asher family had been partnering with Bob Stark on the development of all those parking lots west of Public Square into a vast commercial/retail/residential project.  Stark has pulled out of that project, but apparently the Ashers still […]

The Cybils: The Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards.  Given out in January for the third year. Lots of good books on these lists. And this site has a link to KidLitosphere Central, which tries to maintain links to all the blogging being done about Children’s and YA books. On […]